Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-16

regulated by birth or wealth or accident
but by the scale of virtue and benevolence
and people will be assigned to their place
So, also, commercial life will be attuned
and there will be twelve in every dozen
and sixteen ounces in every pound, an,
apples at the bottom of the barrel will b
as sound as those on the top, and silk good
will not be cotton, and sellers will not hav'
to charge honest people more than the righ
price because others will not pay, and good
will come to you corresponding with tht
sample by which you purchased them, an(
coffee will not be chickoried, and sugar vii
not be sanded, and milk will not be chalk
ed, and adulteration of food will be State'l
prison offence. Aye, all things shall be at
tuned. Elections in England and the
United States will no more be a granc
carnival of defamation and scurrility, but
| the elevation of righteous men in a righteous
way.
| In the sixteenth century the singers call
ed the Fischer brothers reached the lowest
bass ever recorded, and the highest note
ever trilled was by La Bastardella, and
Catalini's voice had a compass of three and
a half octaves; bat Christianity is more
wonderful it runs all up and down the
greatest heights and the deepest depths OF
the worlds necessity, and it will compass
everything and bring it in accord with the
song which the morning stars sang at the
laying of the worlds corner. stone. All the
sacred music in homes and concert halls
and churches tends toward this consumma-
tion. Make it more and more hearty
Sing in your families. Sing in your places
of business If nc with proper spirit use
these faculties, we are rehearsing for the
skies.
Heaven is to have new song, an entire
ly new song, but should not wonder il,
as sometimes on earth tune is fashioned
out of many tunes, or it is one tune with
the variations, SO some of the songs of the
redeemed may have playing through them
the songs of earth, and how thrilling as
coming through the great anthem of the
saved, accompanied by harpers with their
harps, and trumpeters with their trumpets,
we should hear some of the strains of Anti
och, and Mount Pisgah, and Coronation,
and Lenox, and st. Martins, and Fount-
ain, and Ariel, and Old Hundred. How
they would bring to mind the praying cir
cles. and communion days, and the Christ
mas festivals, and the church worship in
which on earth we mingled have no
idea that when we bid farewell to earth we
are to bid farewell to all these grand old
Gospel hymns, which melted and raptured
our souls for so many years. Now, my
friends, if sin is discord and righteousness
is harmony, let US get out of the one and
enter the other. After our dreadful civil
war was over, and in the summer of 1869,
a great national peace jubilee was held in
Boston, and as an elder of this church has
been honored by the selection of some Of
his music, to be rendered on that occasion.
accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty
thousand people sat and stood in the great
Coliseum erected for that purpose. Thou
sands of wind and stringed instruments
Twelve thousand trained voices. The
masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour
after hour, and day after day-Handel's
"Judas Maccabaeus," Sphor's 'Last Judg-
ment," Mendlessohn's "Elijah," Meyer.
beers Coronation March, !" rolling on and
up in surges that billowed against the
heavens. The mighty cadences within
we're accompanied on the outside by the
ringing Of the bells of the city and cannon
on the commons, in exact time with the
music, discharged by electricity, thunder
ing their awful bars of harmony that as
founded all nations. Some times I bowed
my head and wept. Some times 1 stood
up in the enchantment, and some times the
effect was so overpowering felt 1 could
not endure it, When all the voices were in
full chorus, and all the batons in full wave,
and all the orchestra in full triumph, and
a hundred anvils under mighty hammers
were in full clang, and all the towers of the
city rolled in their majestic sweetness, and
the whole building quaked with the boom of
thirty cannon, Parepa Rosa, with voice
that will never again be equalled on earth
until the archangelic voice proelaims that
time shall be no longer, rose above all
other sounds in her rendering of our na-
tional air. the ''Star Spangled Banner. p
1t was too much for mortal, and quite
enough for an immortal to hear, and while
some tainted one womanly spirit, released
under its power, sped away to be with
God.
Oh, Lord, our God quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all islands
Of the sea join the five continents, and all
the voices and musical instruments of all
nations combine and all the organs that
ever sounded requiem of sorrow sound
only grand march of joy, and all the bells
that tolled for burial ring for resurrection,
and all the cannon that ever hurled death
across the nations sound to eternal victory,
cuu OSOi ehO dCCldIul VI tctrGu auQ HILL
strelsy of heaven there will be heard one
voice sweeter and mighter than any human
or angelic voice, voice full of tears, but
then full of triumph, the voice Of Christ
saying: 81 am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and the
last" Then, at the laying of the top-stone
of the worlds history, the same voices
shall be heard as when at the laying of the
worlds cOrDar- stonn tttha rnorpino stars
sang together"
A BRIDES FATE.-Miss Birdie Meyberg,
a prominent aud beautiful belle of St.
Louis, was paralyzed in that city under
most remarkable circumstances. She was
engaged to be married on the 14th of
November to Alfred Gernsfeld, of Albuquer-
que, N. NJ. The wedding was to have
been celebrated in elaborate style, and